The Citadel vs. Wake Forest

The Citadel and Wake Forest have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1910; Wake Forest leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Wake Forest 2–⁠1, and Wake Forest has won the last 2.

The Citadel wins
1
Wake Forest wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1910
Longest streak
2 Wake Forest
Current streak
2 Wake Forest
Last 10 meetings
Wake Forest 2–⁠1
Most recent
1980

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s1–⁠0
1930s0–⁠1
1980s0–⁠1
Average margin
17.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At The Citadel
1–⁠0 The Citadel’s record at home
At Wake Forest
2–⁠0 Wake Forest’s record at home
Shutouts
1

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of The Citadel and Wake Forest, 1910 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

From the newspapers

  • The The farmer and mechanic's story of the 1910 game: WAKE FOREST DEFEATED LOSES TO TIE CITADEL or CHARLESTON, S. c., By SCORE OF g TO 5-CApTAIN WAS III STAR OF III BAP- TIST BOYS.

    1910 · The farmer and mechanic, Raleigh, N.C., Nov 1, 1910

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Sep 20, 1980Wake Forest 24, The Citadel 7at Wake Forest
Sep 30, 1938Wake Forest 31, The Citadel 0at Wake Forest
Oct 29, 1910The Citadel 9, Wake Forest 5at The Citadel

Every game is listed as played on the field.